Write Your Own Teaching Points

If you use the Units of Study for Teaching Writing, K–8, then it’s probable you’ve worked your way through the four major books in your grade level’s kit. Chances are you’re looking to teach a unit from the If… Then… Curriculum book or you’re designing a unit of study with your grade-level colleagues. Either way, you are trying to figure out how to help your students master new writing skills. But how do you do this?

I asked Kate and Maggie for permission to share an excerpt from their bonus chapter here on Two Writing Teachers since I know writing teaching points from scratch mystifies many teachers. And for good reason. It’s hard enough to figure out what to teach kids. Trying to figure out how to teach kids to accomplish a skill and then explain why we might want to do this work is hard work! Kate and Maggie take the mystery out of this in the bonus chapter.

2 thoughts on “Write Your Own Teaching Points”

Students must be encouraged to write so teachers should make a concerted effort to motivate students to do it. Writing assists meta-cognition, critical thinking, memory boosting among other benefits. So, whatever strategies that teachers can employ to help students, would never be too much work.

I LOVE this book and the videos that they have created to support it. I was lucky enough to participate in #cyberpd last summer as we dug into the book. It is one that every literacy teacher should have!